Gooooooood morning, Family!!! Hey, this is not a test, this is a tech roundup. Time to rock it from the Delta to the DMZ.
AI, bots and robots
- Think Like a Bot – Guess labels applied by AI to random images
- AnalogueOS, the “Library of Alexandria of video games.”
Analogue OS is purpose built for exploring and celebrating all of video game history - Facebook is researching AI systems that see, hear, remember everything you do
- Embodied Intelligence via Learning and Evolution
- Why soda bottles have gaps in their threads
- Code quality: a concern for businesses, bottom lines, and empathetic programmers
- AI can see through you: CEOs’ language under machine microscope
- Using Machine Learning to Guess Pins from Video
- Artificial muscles robotic arm with full range of motion
- Stop Calling Everything AI, Machine-Learning Pioneer Says
- Composability in Julia: Implementing Deep Equilibrium Models via Neural ODEs
- The Age of Machine Learning as Code Has Arrived
Blockchain and decentralization
- Why the ‘Big Short’ Guys Think Bitcoin Is a Bubble
- Blockchain voting is overrated among uninformed but underrated among informed
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb Calls Bitcoin a Tulip Bubble Without the Aesthetics
Woman computer scientist of the week
Susan Landau is an American mathematician, engineer, cybersecurity policy expert, and Bridge Professor in Cybersecurity and Policy at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. She previously worked as a Senior Staff Privacy Analyst at Google. She was a Guggenheim Fellow and a Visiting Scholar at the Computer Science Department, Harvard University in 2012.
Cloud and architecture
- Weaponized Architecture
- Quickly and Easily Install Nextcloud
- AWS is playing chess, Cloudflare is playing Go
AWS is playing Chess. Cloudflare is playing Go. - The SaaS Metrics That Matter
- A peer-to-peer and Node.js cloud
- How to Create a SaaS and Compete with the Big Players as a Solo Founder
- AWS Communism: How we cut our Load Balancing cost by more than 96%
- Software Freedom Conservancy files GPL lawsuit against Vizio
- SFC files lawsuit against Vizio Inc. for GPL violations
- M3O – an open source public cloud platform
- Facebook settles federal lawsuit over allegations it favored foreign applicants
- Builder Pattern in Rust
- Playstation 3 Architecture
An in-depth analysis that explains how this console works internally - Cloudflare’s Pace of Innovation
- Mihály CSíkszentmihályi – Flow Theory Architect – Dies Aged 88
World-renowned Hungarian psychologist, flow-theory architect Mihály Csíkszentmihályi, died at the age of 88 on Wednesday.
Development and languages
- WordPress Latin1 and UTF-8, Part 2
- Git Command Explorer
GitExplorer: Find the right git commands you need without digging through the web - The JavaScript ecosystem is a hot mess and so is software development in general
- Fable is a compiler that brings F# into the JavaScript ecosystem
- Python stands to lose its GIL, and gain a lot of speed
- Miguel de Icaza comment on the .NET Foundation
Why am I writing this? For the last nine years, I've served as the Executive Director of the F# Software Foundation. Given the recent controversies, I have had quite a few people reach out to m… - Fast rebases with git-move
- The most secure and private way to run Windows
- Manifold: Java typesafe metaprogramming with IDE support by abusing the compiler
- Who reads digitised Malay manuscripts?
- Python library to overload functions based on interpreter version
- A proposal for adding a pipe operator to JavaScript
- Where does all the effort go? Looking at Python core developer activity
- Function pipelines: Building functional programming into PostgreSQL
Today we are releasing function pipelines, a new feature that allows you to analyze data by composing multiple functions in SQL – introducing a simpler, cleaner way of expressing complex logic in PostgreSQL. - Android 12 Released
- Outdated, vulnerable open source components shipped with Windows 10 and 11
- Storing data on a cassette using Arduino and Python (Diff. Manchester encoding)
- Android Apps on Windows 11
- Convert macros to functions in the Python C API
- SuDump: Exploiting suid binaries through the kernel
- Valorant’s anti-cheat system requires TPM 2.0 and secure boot on Windows 11
- Polyglot Programming and the Benefits of Mastering Several Languages
- Incident with GitHub Actions, Issues, Pull Requests, and Webhooks
- Magit, the Magical Git Interface
- nMigen – A refreshed Python toolbox for building complex digital hardware
- GPT Code Clippy, the Open Source Version of GitHub Copilot
Quote of the week
Every methodology I’ve come across has, at its kernel, a very small section labelled “do magic here”.
— Katie
Enterprises
- Amazon Corretto JDK
- Tesla’s Musk invited to a video call into Volkswagen executive conference
- The Billion Dollar Code on Netflix, Developers Who Sued over Google Earth’s Algo
This 4-episode German drama is based on the true story of ART+COM’s copyright infringement lawsuit against Google. - AMD Laptops finally reach the 4k screen barrier
- Was Google Earth Stolen?
- Google deletes 3k articles over bogus DMCA notice
The rampant abuse of DMCA law is well known. In the latest, Google deletes over 3,000 articles of WheelsJoint from its search results, including the Tesla… - Apple’s Gaming Revenue Reportedly Exceeds Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo Combined
- Former Netflix executive convicted of receiving bribes from contractors
- Former Netflix executive convicted of receiving bribes from contractors
- Google Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro
- Five U.S. lawmakers accuse Amazon of possibly lying to Congress
Five members of the U.S. House Judiciary committee wrote to Amazon.com Inc’s chief executive Sunday, and accused the company’s top executives, including founder Jeff Bezos, of either misleading Congress or possibly lying to it about Amazon’s business practices. - Brave Search replaces Google as default search engine in the Brave browser
Starting today, new Brave users will have the search functionality in the Brave browser powered by Brave Search, giving them the privacy and independence of a search/browser alternative to Big Tech. - Google, Mozilla Close to Finalizing Sanitizer API for Chrome and Firefox Browse
- I found an Amazon folder with thousands of audio recordings from my home gadgets
- Intel researchers propose HTTPS Attestable to secure web workloads via SGX
- Intel’s future now depends on making everyone else’s chips
- Tesla 3Q2021 Earnings Result
- Tesla earned $1.6B in the third quarter as car sales surged
- FlixMobility Acquires Greyhound to Expand U.S. Intercity Bus Services
- Dutch forensic lab says it has decoded Tesla’s driving data
The Dutch government’s forensic lab said on Thursday it had decrypted electric carmaker Tesla Inc’s closely guarded driving data-storage system, uncovering a wealth of information that could be used to investigate serious accidents. - All standard-range Teslas will now use cheaper LFP battery chemistry
- Tesla’s German plant hits snag as public consultation repeated
An online consultation for local citizens to express objections to Tesla’s huge factory near Berlin will be repeated, the regional environmental ministry said on Thursday, over concerns the process did not comply with regulations. - Forget Twitter Threads; Write a Blog Post Instead
- Tesla is outrunning the supply chain crunch
- BYD has reportedly received 10 GWh of orders from Tesla for LFP batteries
Right now CATL is Tesla’s sole supplier of LFP (LiFePO4) battery cells, but BYD seems to be the next on the list. According to Chinese media, Tesla has secured an initial order of… - Intel Betting the Farm
- Google takes two-to-four times as much as the fees charged by rival ad networks
- Bid to unionize Amazon workers in New York nears milestone
- The monopoly strategy behind the Google/Microsoft mobile patent wars
- Leaving Google
Last Friday was my last day at Google. This article is a reflection on the last seven years of my life, thinking about what was important and what I’ll do differently in the future. - An enormous thread on alleged Google Facebook collusion
- Tesla Autopilot Data Reverse Engineered
- Google sought fellow tech giants’ help in stalling kids’ privacy protections
- Google ‘colluded’ with Facebook to bypass Apple privacy
- Google said it had successfully ‘slowed down’ European privacy rules
- Can we trust Microsoft with Open Source?
- AMD Short Interest Has Grown by 234% in Nine Months Reveals Data
Other news
- Today’s tech founders are getting huge pay packages
Startup creators once tended to take little or no remuneration as CEOs. Now, some are getting giant stock awards, making them among Americaâs best-compensated corporate chiefs. - How I learned to program
- Learn Wgpu
- Leave no trace: how a teenage hacker lost himself online
- Hacking around on the telephone, the internet before the internet
- Axboe Achieves 8M IOPS Per-Core with Newest Linux Optimization Patches
- Learning about writing by seeing only the punctuation
- The Go+ language for engineering, STEM education, and data science
- At Axel Springer, Politico’s New Owner, Allegations of Sex, Lies, Secret Payment
- What to Learn
- Hacker steals government ID database for Argentina’s entire population
- How to get back into a hacked Facebook account
- Worn-out nurses hit the road for better pay, stressing hospital budgets, morale
- Leaded fuel reduced IQ of children born before 1990
- Conservation should be allowed to pay its own way on public lands
- The determined math tutor teaching calculus on Pornhub
- Eliminating Gifted Programs Won’t Make Education Fair
Recently equity-minded education reformers in New York City have been trying to curtail “gifted and talented programs,” saying they “do not condone a - Exome sequencing and analysis of 450k UK Biobank participants
- Netpen.io Visual editor for Linux network scripts generation
- The Methods of Moral Panic Journalism
- Banks, gangsters and the strange resurgence of cash
- Eleven reasons to switch from Windows to Linux
- Theorem demonstrates that CNNs can always be trained on quantum computers
